Elon Musk responds to Jack Dorsey rant towards India: Watch

On June 20 (native time), Twitter Chairman and CTO Elon Musk mentioned that Twitter has to obey the native authorities legal guidelines; in any other case, the corporate’s staff should face the implications. He was answering a query concerning what Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey mentioned about India in a latest interview that Twitter locked numerous handles on the authorities’s request.

#WATCH | Twitter and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after assembly PM Modi in New York, says “Twitter doesn’t have a alternative however to obey native governments. If we do not obey native authorities legal guidelines, we are going to get shut down so one of the best we will do is to work near the regulation in any given nation,… pic.twitter.com/4B4mgzxz9e

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Replying to India Today’s Foreign Affairs Editor Geeta Mohan’s query Musk mentioned, “Twitter does not have a choice but to obey local governments. If we don’t obey local government laws, we will get shut down. So the best we can do is to work close to the law in any given country. It is impossible for us to do more than that, or we will be blocked, and our people will be arrested. We cannot just apply America to Earth. There are different rules and regulations of different governments. We will do our best to provide the freest speech that is possible under the law.”

Musk’s assertion got here after assembly Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s on his official state go to to the US. Following the assembly, Musk mentioned he was a fan of him and was honoured to satisfy him. Furthermore, Musk added that PM Modi actually desires to do the precise factor for India. “He wants to be open, he wants to be supportive of new companies, obviously, but at the same time, make sure it accrues to India’s advantage, which is obviously that’s the job I’m saying. I am a fan of Modi,” mentioned Musk.

Jack Dorsey claimed India threatened Twitter

On June 12 (native time), former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey accused the Indian authorities of threatening Twitter with authorized penalties throughout farmer protests. In an unique interview on Breaking Point, that the Indian authorities threatened to close down Twitter if it didn’t take motion towards “particular journalists” and accounts “critical of the government” throughout the farmer’s protest.

He mentioned, “India is a country that had many requests of us around the farmer’s protest around particular journalists that were critical of the government. It manifested in ways such as ‘we will shut Twitter down in India’, which is a very large market for us. ‘We will raid the homes of your employees’, which they did. ‘We will shut down your offices if you don’t follow suit’, and this is India, a democratic country.”

While Jack Dorsey claimed that they have been threatened with raids and a shutdown, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar issued a clarification citing how Twitter underneath Jack Dorsey was blatantly violating Indian legal guidelines and disregarding India’s sovereignty. He additional mentioned that Jack Dorsey was blatantly partisan, de-platforming and de-amplifying voices it didn’t agree with politically.